BBC Online is mostly back online now, after serious problems overnight and early this morning.
Reg readers emailed to report problems from 3am UK time until just before 9am this morning.
For most the site was either unavailable, or loading extremely slowly.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "Some people have been experiencing problems …

Blame the Mail

First

Things have Changed

They now have a BBC ID for people contributing to blogs and Have Your Say. I'm sure that wasn't there yesterday.

I've also noticed that their audio streams seem to be broken more often since the RealAudio streams were discontinued in favour the iPlayer stuff. My local radio station this morning didn't work via the WM stream, although the iPlayer one seemed OK.

I have to admit I wondered whether there was some sort of DDOS attack going on.

Not to worry...

Al happened earlier than acknowledged

I had a problem accessing the BBC site from 16:00 on the 5th, when an iPlayer feed I was listening to stopped. Trying to access bbc.co.uk produced a rather dubious looking holding page (copy available on request). Certainly looked to me like they'd been hacked, most likely via their DNS.